Quest Downtime Begins June 13

**UPDATE**

June 7, 2022 - The Quest maintenance is canceled due to the unexpected unavailability of a vendor partner, as well as a longer window required by the vendor to perform maintenance. Northwestern IT will notify the Quest community once a new date for this work is confirmed.

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Northwestern IT is performing scheduled maintenance on the Quest computing cluster, including the Quest Analytics Nodes and the Kellogg Linux Cluster (KLC), beginning at 8 a.m. on Monday, June 13, and through approximately 5 p.m. on Friday, June 17. Quest, including access to data on Quest, will be unavailable during the entire maintenance period.  

During this downtime, the following maintenance will be performed:

• The scheduler will upgrade to Slurm version 21.08
• Storage system firmware will upgrade to improve security and stability
• The latest security patches will be applied to all Quest nodes\
• NVIDIA GPU Drivers will update to version 515, which supports CUDA 11.7 

Impact on the Quest User Community

• Jobs with a wall time that extends beyond the start of the downtime will not run before the downtime. Users may need to resubmit these jobs after the maintenance. Such jobs will receive a “ReqNodeNotAvail, Reserved_for_maintenance” message as the queue reason. 
• Jobs running on the Quest Analytics Nodes and KLC will be canceled at the beginning of the downtime. 
• Users will not be able to log in to Quest, submit new jobs, run jobs, access files stored on Quest, use Globus, or use the Quest Analytics Nodes and KLC during the maintenance window. 
• Please visit the Status of University IT Services for updates during the maintenance window.

If you have questions or concerns about this scheduled maintenance, please contact the Research Computing Services team at quest-help@northwestern.edu.